Old with an expiration date
... it does change your thought processes. When you pass middle age you start to realize the things you now won't live long enough to do, you reevaluate your goals and maybe admit defeat on some of them. That's what sends some people into Crisis. This, the old and have a terminal illness hourglass, feels more solid. Harder to deny. I think of major things, like my dream to go backpacking in Japan, and little things, like why worry about the long term damage of nasal spray? when I just have a short term left. Kinda funny.